GAZA, August 4, 2005 (WAFA-PLO News Agency) Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei called on the Quartet Committee and the international community to exert utmost efforts to end Israeli occupation of the rest of the Palestinian territories. During a festival entitled “Liberation and Evacuation Festival” held in Gaza on Thursday, Qurei called on the international community to […]

The bulldozers are revving up, thousands of protesters are taking to the streets, and Israel’s security forces are practicing mock evacuations \u2013 but that hasn’t stopped the bulk of American Jewry from striking a shamefully casual pose of inexplicable silence. With just two weeks remaining before the start of the proposed withdrawal from Gaza and […]

GAZA, Palestine, August 3,2005 (IPC+WAFA)–A Palestinian medical source in Beit Hanoon, north of the Gaza Strip, reported that a child was killed; five children were injured, after makeshift homemade mortar fired by a resistance group hit their home. Mu’wia Abu hussanien, director general of the emergency of the health ministry stated that Yasser Adnan al-Ashqar, […]

More than 45,000 determined protesters are remaining at the Peduyim Junction on the outskirts of Ofakim, where their march toward Gush Katif was blocked by tens of thousands of soldiers and police. “We will not move from here, we will stay here at the Ranan Junction until we are allowed to continue toward Gush Katif,” […]

The campaign against Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan has mistakenly focused on how to defeat 50,000 troops that Sharon has deployed to carry out his policy. The campaign against Sharon’s plan should instead be focused on how to stop its implementation, before the implementation gains momentum. There are two hot issues that, if systematically marketed to […]

On July 24, 2005, two Lebanese muftis the mufti of Mt. Lebanon, Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Jozo, and the mufti of Tyre, Ali Al-Amin appeared on ANB TV to debate the situation in the Middle East. In making a point about tight security at the U.S. border prior to 9/11, Dr. Al-Jozo related gleefully how, when […]

Tens of thousands of anti-expulsion protestors have reached the Negev town of Sderot despite police attempts to limit the number to 5,000. Protesters intend to march to Gush Katif Wednesday evening. Major traffic delays are reported in Kiryat Malachi, Ashdod and many other southern district municipalities as thousands of anti-Disengagement protestors continue making their way […]

The Bayit Leumi (‘National Home’) civil disobedience movement has renewed its call for mass civil disobedience, offering several suggestions focusing on occupying the security services. The group, which brought the country to a halt on May 17th in a show of strength it termed a ‘dry-run,’ is now calling for a series of creative acts […]

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | A reader e-mails a link to a news item from Gaza, where some Jewish residents have “tattooed” their national ID numbers on their arms, Auschwitz-style a bitter gesture of protest against their forthcoming expulsion. My correspondent’s comment is blunt. “Misusing Holocaust language and imagery,” she writes. “Utterly disgusting makes me have less sympathy […]

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | What do Islamist terrorists want? The answer should be obvious, but it is not. A generation ago, terrorists did make their wishes very clear. On hijacking three airliners in September 1970, for example, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine demanded, with success, the release of Arab terrorists imprisoned in Great Britain, […]